Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)

Table of Contents for Volume 8, Issue 6, Nov/Dec 2002

ART & SCIENCE Issue

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On the front cover: A scene from the opera “Il Destino di Grant Application” (see page 9).(To see the front cover enlarged, click on the image.)

On the back cover: Components from a cut-out-the-pieces-and-assemble-it kit available from the Victoria and Albert Museum. The kit reproduces, in miniature, the popular “Tipoo’s Tiger” mechanical toy that commemorates an Indian tiger mauling a British officer.(To see the back cover enlarged, click on the image.)

The features marked with a star (*) are based entirely on material taken straight from standard research (and other Official and Therefore Always Correct) literature. Many of the other articles are genuine, too, but we don't know which ones.